Leadership for Results

The past two days I was fortunate to attend the IHI IMPACT (Improvement/Action) Network conference in Detroit. I was recruited by the IMPACT team to create a blog for the event so that IMPACT members (and Open School chapters) who were not present could review the materials presented by the numerous speakers.

I wanted to share the blog with you. Please feel free to comment on any of the pieces-the posts are organized in order of the speakers and panels that took place.

About the IHI IMPACT Network:
The IMPACT network is central to the strategy and concept of IHI and is a vehicle to drive change. It consists of leadership such as hospital executives and senior managers who are interested to drive system change and improvement. The program holds two meetings annually and as a “spread device”, IMPACT is about coming together and sharing knowledge locally, nationally and internationally. This week's event primarily included healthcare leaders from the Michigan community, IHI faculty and directors and other hospital CEOs from around the country.

I hope you are having a wonderful summer. Rubbing elbows with Donald Berwick and the IHI faculty has definitely gotten me very excited for our Open School activities to resume in September together!

IHI Meeting Overview - 4/7/09

Many thanks to those of you who were able to attend the IHI Open School meeting on Tuesday night! We received very positive feedback regarding our guest speaker and the interesting discussion that followed. Here is an article passed along to us from Dr. Talsma regarding "Why 'Quality' Care is Dangerous" : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123914878625199185.html

For those of you who indicated that you would like to be involved with future projects, I will be passing on your names and anticipated time commitments to the folks at UMHS. I will let you know what occurs in terms of the potential negotiation process that may occur. If anyone else is interested in being involved with some hands-on projects in the fall, we are working on determining the possibilities for extra-curricular involvement. Please send me your estimated time commitment per week for next fall, skills and/or interests and I will include these with my correspondence to the IPCE project administrators.

Thank you again for your support and attendance this year. We look forward to an exciting fall semester with enhanced participation and collaboration from a variety of health professions' schools!

Amy Silverstein and the IHI OS Team

Next IHI Meeting -- 4/7 at 7:00pm

GENERAL IHI MEETING
TUESDAY, APRIL 7th. 6:30pm 7:00pm*
Location: Room 1680, School of Public Health (same room as previous meeting)

*Please note the time change -- due to a scheduling conflict we pushed the meeting forward by 30 minutes. Room 1680 is the Community/Organ Room located behind the glass doors in the lobby of the SPH I building.

Fellow IHI Colleagues,
Mark your calendars for the next IHI Meeting on Tuesday, April 7th at 7:00 PM in Room 1680 of the School of Public Health.

Our guest speaker, Dr. AkkeNeel Talsma, will be joining us from the School of Nursing for the final general meeting of the academic year. She plans to have an engaging and interactive discussion on her research and experience concerning "Failure to Rescue." As always, please forward this information widely to other health professions' students who are interested in patient safety and quality improvement in healthcare!

We hope to see you there!

- The IHI Open School team.

IHI Open School Working Meeting

IHI OPEN SCHOOL WORKING MEETING

TUESDAY, MARCH 17th. 6:30pm

Location: School of Public Health, Room 2690 (this room is approximately above the Organ Room/Community Room where our last meeting was held)

Please join us next week to coordinate some exciting projects that are in the works. The focus of this meeting is to prioritize and move forward on the initiatives, and to begin to make our active presence known at the UoM. This is not intended to be a "general" meeting and will be a "working" meeting, but we hope to see everyone there!

IHI Update

Hi Everyone,

We’d like to update you on some IHI Open School happenings since our meeting last month. We are pursuing several exciting opportunities for active learning, on-site shadowing, and hands-on projects, as well as working to expand and improve our chapter of IHI OS. If you want to help us pursue any of these opportunities or take a leadership role in IHI OS, please contact me. Watch out for our next meeting at the end of this month.

—The IHI OS Team

1) We have been in touch with the leaders of the Idealized Patient Care Experience (IPCE) project at UMHS. This is essentially UMHS’s translation of the IOM’s Crossing the Quality Chasm. It sounds like there are opportunities for IHI OS learning and contribution. We'll be meeting with their team in the next week to discuss the details.

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/jbilli/files/ipce-workingdocument-06-24-08.pdf

2) We talked to Lee Green, a family physician and member of the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR). Their focus is on clinical and translational research; Dr. Green’s research centers on the theory behind changing physician/practitioner behavior, basically how to re-train/teach experts. MICHR seems to be connected with everything IHI-related in and around UoM, and Dr. Green believes students can be involved at any level that interests them, from attending meetings to improvement projects to theoretical research.

http://www.michr.umich.edu/about/

3) We talked to Marion Udow, a leader in the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation. They are currently involved in two pilot projects for teaching both patients and physicians about appropriate use of imaging w/ back pain (basically don’t do it!) and about sticking with medical therapy rather than cath/angio in patients with stable angina.

http://www.chrt.org/projects/delivery.html

4) We're still working on gaining entree into the School of Nursing to find students and/or faculty who are interested in engaging in the group. PLEASE HELP US! If you have any contacts at the nursing school or other helpful ideas, contact Jonathan: jdunford@umich.edu

5) We have created this blog for general dissemination of information, and are beginning a webpage. Stay tuned!

Chapter Meeting

This evening over 25 students, faculty, and health professionals attended the inaugural general meeting of the University of Michigan chapter of IHI. We had a great turnout from a wide variety of professions, including representatives from the medical school, dental school, school of public health, law school, and business school. During the meeting, we discussed what values were most important in providing health services to patients and how to address and reduce the incidence of medical mistakes. In addition, we listened to a couple clips from Don Berwick as he introduced the group to IHI (video) and described his requirements for a surgeon who would operate on his knee (transcript). Our next meeting will be in March - details to be announced soon. Hope to see you there!

Healthcare Blogs

At this evening's IHI meeting, Jonathan showed how blogging can be used as a tool to stay up-to-date with developments in the health care domain. He created a file that you can use to import these blogs into Google Reader so you can read them at your convenience: google-reader-subscriptions.xml. The list of blogs is as follows:

Health-related

Health Affairs Blog – Health policy blog that contains critiques of the Obama/McCain health plans (http://www.healthaffairs.org/blog/index.php?feed=rss2)

Health Care Industry – Explains business concepts of healthcare
(http://feeds.feedburner.com/bnet/healthcare)

Health Care Renewal – Addresses threats to health care's core values (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default)

Health Management Rx – Comments on health management (of course) and patient care processes of the future. (http://feeds.feedburner.com/HealthManagementRx)

Medgadget – Source of new medical innovations/inventions (http://www.medgadget.com/atom.xml)

ScienceRoll – Written by a Hungarian med student who is interested in genetics and Web 2.0 (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Scienceroll)

The Health Care Blog – Conglomeration of numerous promoters of Health 2.0 (http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/rss.xml)

WSJ.com: Health Blog – Up-to-date information about health-related news (http://feeds.wsjonline.com/wsj/health/feed)

Not health-related

Lifehacker – Contains tips and downloads for getting things done. (http://www.lifehacker.com/index.xml)

TED Blog – A best of the best blog. Their annual conference brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives. (http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/atom.xml)